16 Facts About Henry Kable

Henry Kable, born in Laxfield, Suffolk, England, was an Englishman transported to Australia in the First Fleet and became a prominent business man.

Henry Kable's sentence was commuted to transportation for fourteen years to the United States the American Revolution made transportation to America impossible and Henry was returned to the Norwich Castle jail.

At Norwich Castle gaol, Henry Kable met and began a relationship with Susannah Holmes, who gave birth in prison to a son Henry Kable.

Henry Kable's sentence was commuted and she was sentenced to transportation to the United States colonies for a term of 14 years.

In 1798, Henry Kable opened a hotel called the Ramping Horse, from which he ran the first stage coach in Australia, and he owned a retail store.

Henry Kable became a constable of police, and later chief constable in the new colony and was involved on the prosecution side in criminal cases.

Henry Kable was dismissed 25 May 1802 for misbehaviour, after being convicted for breaches of the port regulations and illegally buying and importing pigs from a visiting ship.

Henry Kable seems to have prospered; in 1808 shipping records show Kable and two partners, boat builder James Underwood and the other Simeon Lord, as principal ship owners in the expanding commerce of acquiring and exporting sealskins to the colony.

Henry Kable was one of 70 signatories to a petition to Governor Hunter from creditors who were anxious to prevent debtors from frustrating their demands by legal delays.

The partnership dissolved in some bitterness shortly afterwards but not before Henry Kable had managed to divest himself of a good deal of his property to his son, in order to avoid the consequences of any court order.

Henry Kable did much to pioneer sealing and shipbuilding in New South Wales, working with Simeon Lord who marketed the skins and James Underwood who built the ships.

Henry Kable had been granted farms at Petersham Hill in 1794 and 1795, and in the latter year bought out four near-by grantees within a week of their grants being signed.

Henry Kable had 40 horned cattle, 9 horses and 40 pigs.

In 1811 Henry Kable moved to Windsor where he operated a store and brewery, the latter in association with a partner, Richard Woodbury and his Sydney warehouse was let to Michael Hayes.

Henry Kable died on 16 April 1846, at Pitt Town near Windsor, New South Wales and was buried on 18 April 1846, at St Matthew's Anglican Church, Windsor.

Henry Kable who had been born in England and another 10 children born in New South Wales including Dianna, Enoch, James, Susannah, George Esto, Eunice, William Nathaniel, and Edgar James.